Arranz-Bravo: Energy Land
San Francisco / New York: Franklin Bowles Galleries, 2013.
Paperback. 10 3/4" X 7 3/4". 74pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this full-color catalogue that was published for the Arranz-Bravo: Energy Land art exhibition at the Franklin Bowles Gallery.
Like Florence in the Renaissance, and Paris and New York more recently, Catalonia has been a very fertile ground for artistic creation. Gaudi, Dalí, Picasso, Miró, and Tàpies are among its most celebrated artists. The latest among them, born in Barcelona and still living there, is Eduardo Arranz-Bravo. With all these artists, Arranz-Bravo shares a passionate desire to paint, a visceral creativity, and outstanding technical skills. His art, like theirs, is unique, inventive, challenging, and in constant evolution. “Life is like a river,” Arranz-Bravo tells us, “it is something you can live from. A river can never live with the water of twenty years ago, now it is living with the present water. I think I am like a river. Nobody can stop this river.”
Arranz-Bravo was born in 1941. During a trip to Paris in 1958, the 17-year old artist’s painting departed from his conventional artistic training – he began to tirelessly churn out radically abstract works. During this time he drew inspiration from the Spanish physicist, Miguel Masriera, who encouraged him to continue his painting. Motivated by his travels in Paris and Italy, in 1959 he enrolled in the Escuela Superior de Bella Artes de San Jorge, in Barcelona. In 1967, Eduardo drastically changed his painting style, beginning a trend the critics have called “new figuration,” a term he detests. Eduardo’s work has continued to grow and evolve throughout his career. However, he does not believe in explaining his art; he believes in selective perception and prefers that each viewer draw his or her own conclusions when interpreting his paintings. (Publisher). Very good. Item #11548
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